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Chapter 986

After Li Jing and Gongsun Lan talked about the main business, the old princess also called Wan'er's sister to come and ask them to go to Cining Palace for dinner. Wan'er and Ruiwen also ended the Gozi game, but when they left, Ruiwen quickly put the spoils in a snack box early and hugged them firmly in his arms. This mysterious appearance made Li Jing and others laughed aside. After all, Xiao Qing Bird is also Princess Qinghai, the princess of Korea, and she is the most powerful and wealthy King of the Tang Dynasty like today. She doesn't have much money, just how much can Wan'er's jewelry be worth.

Besides, Wan'er has always been relatively simple, unless the jewelry she usually wears is relatively ordinary on important occasions. Li Jing estimated that the half-box spoils in the Blue Bird would not cost more than one hundred cents of money.

"Qingbird, why did you rob your Aunt Wan'er's money? You are so young, do you know how to spend money?" Li Jing asked with a smile.

Unexpectedly, the little blue bird puffed up his face and replied, "This is what I won openly from Aunt Wan'er. I want to exchange these for money."

"What do you want money to do?"

"Make military expenses for my mother." She said seriously. Li Jing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect to hear such an answer. This time, Zhang Yingying came here, so he naturally climbed the Three Treasures Hall without any trouble. As the Qin vassal continued to expand over the years, Zhang Yingying was also making a big fuss in southern Silla. However, it was a few years earlier than before. In recent years, Zhang Yingying's North Korea was getting worse and worse. Since Jinman inherited the throne of Silla, this Silla princess who once held the Mandoro logo was unexpected to many people and began to use her iron-blooded wrists. As soon as she ascended the throne, she began to clean up the court.

The power of Yili, support the trusted and confidant, and attack the aristocratic forces of those aristocratic families. In the face of the peasant rebellion in Silla, they resolutely suppressed the Chika Army and others without any mercy. Through smuggling, they obtained many excellent weapons from Yangzhou, Runzhou, Hangzhou and other places in the southeast. In addition to the original infantry of Silla, a cavalry of 5,000 people and a navy unit of 10,000 people were added. With the assistance of the two new troops of the navy and cavalry, the originally vigorous peasant rebellion in Silla. In a few years, those who had been suppressed could only survive and hide in the mountains.

The Silla Kingdom was renewed and the Wang family's prestige rose, which was a huge blow to the newly established North Korea. A few years ago, Zhang Yingying received a lot of help from Li Jing, and provided them with a large amount of logistics support through the sea trade and the business of sea thieves. However, in recent years, the Qin vassal has been constantly fighting foreign countries, so naturally there is no spare energy to help North Korea on a large scale. Moreover, due to the rapid growth of the Qin vassal's sea trade business, Zhang Yingying's caravan inevitably suffered a great squeeze, and the patrol of the Qin vassal maritime patrol fleet also hit their original pirate business.

In the past two years, after clearing the government's affairs and purging the peasant rebellion, Queen Kim Man finally began to attack the Joseon Dynasty in the south. Within three years, more than 30 wars broke out between Silla and North Korea on the Sanhan Peninsula. In particular, Kim Man issued a strong order to clear the country with a narrow territory, and constantly attacked and destroyed the southern coastal economy, plundered the people, and burned down cities and villages, which was a huge blow to North Korea. Zhang Yingying was under increasing pressure, and North Korea was in great crisis. As a last resort, he had to come to Yanjing and ask Li Jing to come forward for assistance.

Zhang Yingying had not yet told Li Jing about the request, but Li Wen had already taken Li Jing's army first. Facing Zhang Yingying and his daughter, Li Jing had to express it. In any case, privately, Zhang Yingying is Li Jing's woman, and Rui Wen is their daughter. Although Zhang Yingying insisted on staying in Silla, even if she now becomes king, she has not married. With this, Li Jing has to help her. What's more, from the perspective of the public, North Korea is also very important to the Qin vassal.

The Qin Fan has taken over the Northeast and control the vast Northeast region, especially in the distant former Black Water Alliance, often has to rely on sea transportation and rely on the power of the navy. The location of the Sanhan Peninsula is extremely important to be stuck between the Yellow Sea and the East Ocean Sea. Sooner or later, Qin Fan and others will inevitably take over the Sanhan Peninsula. Now the Qin Fan has no time or opportunity to attack Silla. Therefore, it is extremely important to support Zhang Yingying's Korean country to fight and split Silla and continuously weaken the power of the Sanhan Peninsula.

This is a long-term strategic plan. The Sanhan Peninsula is not only an important strategic point for the Qin vassal to control the Northeast region, but also the southern part of the Sanhan Peninsula is also a vast fertile plain and a grain-producing area. The Qin vassal is now growing larger and has a huge demand for food.

On the way back to Cining Palace, Zhang Yingying wanted to speak several times but stopped. Li Jing saw her expression and knew that she wanted to get Li Jing's help, but also knew that the Qin army had just finished the Northeast War and wanted to fight the Hebei War, so it was difficult to speak for a while.

"I plan to give you a full set of 100,000 infantry armed equipment, another 20,000 cavalry equipment, and a fleet of 10,000 people. In addition, if you need it, I can also send a military mission observation team of thousands to North Korea, all composed of outstanding elite non-commissioned officers from the Qin vassal. In addition, I can also provide North Korea with a loan of 5 million yuan. Is this enough?" Li Jing walked with Zhang Yingying, and Zhang Yingying was half a step behind Li Jing.

Zhang Yingying was a little disbelief. She raised her head in surprise, stopped, and stood there and stared at Li Jing blankly. This time she came to Qin Fan for help, but she never thought she could get so much assistance. In her opinion, based on Li Jing's past help to her, she would probably get a batch of most needed weapons, with the number of them probably around 8,000 to 10,000 sets. But she never expected that before she spoke much, Li Jing had already offered to give them 100,000 sets of infantry equipment, 20,000 sets of cavalry equipment, and 10,000 naval equipment.

"The southern part of the Sanhan Peninsula is all plains and is more suitable for cavalry combat. Don't worry, among the 20,000 cavalry equipment, including war horses, I will give you 50,000 war horses, enough for 20,000 cavalry use. In addition, I can also provide 100,000 horses and mules like you for logistics transportation and enhance your maneuver and supply capabilities. The same is true for the navy. The naval equipment of 10,000 people will also include 100 warships of all sizes and 500 transport sea ships."

At this time, Zhang Yingying calmed down. The aid provided by Li Jing had exceeded the personal relationship between her and Li Jing. Even if they had a daughter, Li Jing could not have taken out so much equipment to give it to him for free. She thought about it and asked proactively: "What reward does Qin Fan hope to get?"

Li Jing smiled and Zhang Yingying was indeed very smart. It is no wonder that she could go from being a female pirate leader to the current Queen of North Korea.

"Well, the amount of these aid is very large, and I cannot give it to you all for free. These weapons and equipment and loans can be regarded as loans, and you can exchange resources for them, such as food, prisoners of war, plundered enemy population, various minerals, paint, etc., and you can also use some islands for exchange."

With Li Jing's prompt, Zhang Yingying immediately understood what Li Jing meant. The Qin Fan made too much demand. Their aid was huge. Not to mention the equipment, just tens of thousands of horses and hundreds of ships would be amazing. The war between Zhang Yingying and Jinman was in the south. They had a navy force that was stronger than Silla, but the infantry was slightly inferior. Especially after Jinman formed an elite cavalry, it was difficult for them to compete with Silla on the southern plains of the Sanhan Peninsula. If they could obtain 50,000 war horses and form a cavalry of 20,000 people, even if it was just a junior cavalry, it would have a reverse effect on the subsequent war. What's more, Li Jing was more willing to send a thousand-person observation team, which was an observation team composed of elite non-commissioned officers.

As for the rewards that Li Jing hopes to get, compared with the aid, North Korea at this time seems to be a bit too preferential.

Zhang Yingying did not even ask to discuss with her subordinates, but directly discussed the conditions for the assistance with Li Jing.

Li Jing's goal is long-term, so what he needs now is that Silla will maintain division and fight, so that when the opportunity comes in the future, Qin Fan can take down the Sanhan Peninsula in one fell swoop. Therefore, Li Jing has not made too much demand now, and he has not put forward many conditions.

First, in the Kingdom of Korea, the three major islands of Danrao Island, Tsuma Island and Uryung Island were cedeed to the Qin Fan. These three islands were on the east and south sides of the southern part of the Sanhan Peninsula. Among them, Danrao Island is a large island, which is later Jeju Island in South Korea. Tsuma Island is the boundary island in the Silla and the East Straits, and Uryung Island is on the sea east of the central part of the Sanhan Peninsula. These three islands are all very large, especially Danrao Island, which is larger than the Duri Town and Choongnipo combined, especially their strategic position is also very important on the three sides of the Sanhan Peninsula.

When Qin Fan took these three islands, they could be built into naval bases, which could not only serve as a sea supply station from Qin Fan to the Northeast, but also as an outpost to seize the Three Koreans in the future. Whether it was to control the Northeast or control the Three Koreans in the future, it was extremely important. On the long sea route, several important sea bases were necessary.

In addition, all coastal ports of North Korea will implement preferential conditions for exemption from tariffs on the Qin vassal's commercial goods. In addition, the Qin vassal will cooperate with North Korea to start all kinds of minerals in its territory. All the minerals developed by the Qin vassal account for 70% and North Korea account for 30%. Calculated based on the proven mineral value, until the developed minerals are enough to repay the Qin vassal's loans. In addition, Silla's annual grain, charcoal, cloth, fish products, fur, etc. must also be given a portion of the food, charcoal, cloth, fish products, fur, etc. to the Qin vassal for repayment.

The terms of the treaty are very clear, and there are no overlord clauses. Even on the surface, the Silla War was cheap, and they received the huge amount of support, but they only had to pay a few desert islands and the minerals that had not been discovered and developed there. They didn't even need to explore them themselves. The people from the Qin vassal came to explore them. They went to mine them, and Silla could still get 30% of the harvest after mining.

As for the various grains produced, Qin Fan also promised to meet Silla's own needs first and use the rest to repay. How to see, how cost-effective this condition is. You should know that what Qin Fan gave is not only money and grain, but also important materials such as weapons and war horses that are now extremely precious in various places. Even if you take out real money and silver, you may not be able to buy these things.

Of course, Li Jing did not actually do a loss-making business. Qin Fan did take out a lot of equipment, but the Qin army was just carrying out a major disarmament. Not to mention that Li Jing actually gave Zhang Yingying some early equipment, even war horses, and even the navy's equipment and warships were the same. The Qin army had already replaced the new equipment, and even the local garrison troops and reserve militias were equipped with better equipment than these. Although this batch of equipment for Zhang Yingying was still some excellent equipment in other vassal states, especially on the Sanhan Peninsula, for Qin Fan, these weapons were either used to exchange grain cloths in the southeast and other places, or they could only be renovated. For Yingying, it just happened to help clear some inventory.

As for the five million loans, they were not actually given to Zhang Yingying. According to the agreement, the five million that Qin Fan lent to Zhang Yingying could only be used to purchase Qin Fan's weapons and equipment. After a round of the book, the money was returned to Qin Fan's hands and there was no need to withdraw cash from the warehouse.

Zhang Yingying did not object at all to these additional conditions. She felt that the value of this trip was worth it. With Li Jing's promise to complete the delivery of these military equipment in one year, Zhang Yingying had sufficient confidence to reverse the unfavorable situation in the past three years. Jinman was aggressive and was about to end this time. With these equipment supported by Qin Fan, Zhang Yingying could fully equip the 100,000 troops. On the Sanhan Peninsula, 100,000 troops were enough to sweep the peninsula.

After solving the biggest need of this trip, Zhang Yingying felt much more relaxed. She even took the initiative to hold Li Jing's arm with charm and snuggled up to Li Jing like a bird. At this time, she was not as arrogant as the Queen of Korea, but only her attachment to Li Jing, and her face was full of happiness.

"I'll discuss something with you. The child Qingniao is very smart. I plan to let her go to the training camp for special training." Li Jing said.

Zhang Yingying's body was a little stiff, she said hesitantly: "Spartan Training Camp?"

"Do you know the Spartan training camp?" Li Jing was a little surprised. The Spartan training camp had been established. From Dengzhou to Qishuo Island, Li Jing established eighteen Spartan training camps, and the first batch of 3,600 selected teenagers have officially entered the No. 1 camp, Dengzhou camp. The first batch of 3,600 teenagers were all under the age of twelve and over seven years old. From Li Jing's eldest son Li Dezhao, to the children of civil and military officials of the Qin vassals, to the powerful landlords of the gentry and powerful families in the vassal states, to the tyrants of the gentry and powerful landlords of the major families in the vassal states.

Officials, those families of meritorious families, and children of the family age who are closely linked to the Qin vassal were included. However, not everyone can enter. Although Li Jing had explained the rigor of the training camp before, each family saw that the first list was 18 sons of the Qin King, including Li Dezhao, and more than 100 children of the Li family. Those families were willing to miss this opportunity. For them, this was an excellent opportunity and a glory.

However, what Zhang Yingying hesitated was that Ruiwen was a girl, and she was the princess, the heir of North Korea. Li Jing wanted to keep her and send her to the training camp, so she had to think about it too much. Perhaps, Qin Fan's aid was not as simple as it seemed.

"Don't worry, what I plan to let Riven go to is not the Spartan training camp, but the Rose Training Camp. It is a girl training camp, built in the outskirts of Yanjing. All the instructors and students inside are women. Although the training content also includes military training, it will not be as harsh as Sparta. To put it more clearly, this is a noble girls' school. I just want Riven to stay in Yanjing for more time, so that my mother and I can see this child more. And it will be beneficial for her to stay in Central Plains for a longer time and learn more about Central Plains."
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